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financial strength to work for a wide range of companies from sml businesses to major corporions. >> international achor as an opposition lear is sentenced to een longer in detention. taiwan's battle to find rvivors in the mud slides. we reportrom overseas. a 90-year-old german officer is foun guilty of killing civilians in world war ii.

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allowing an ameran man and to her home, even though he ca uninvited. tougher sanctions are likely. the u.n. secity council has en meeting, but litt looks likely to ay the junta. >> she faced the court inside i i security room. burma is a proud an frightened country. no one dares to raise a public protest. the court sentenced her to ree years of jail wit hard labor. sh is 64 years old and has spent of the most -- most of the past 20 yes in prison. is sentence was reduced to 18 months. r crime was to allow an amican visitor in your house. he had swum tre uninvited.

he was sentenced to seven years of hard labor. >> if she stands in the way -- ifhe could not run for office, she turned out tens of thousand of supporters at ery stopthat she made. that would be dtabilizing for em at this critical moment, as they see it coming in solidifying their rule >> hepro-democracy movement won landslide elections. they turned her intoa simple. in silencing her, ey gave her a vce tt echoes its powerful buke around the world. theuropean unionnd the united states want internatiol action against burma. >> ware doing the right thing, but we alone will not be able to resoe this problem. itas to be the intertional community. weneed to make it clear th

those elections in 2010 will not beccepted anywhere in this world. > t generals know that there is no intertionalconsensus. china and ruia trade with burma. aung san suu kyi's lo and couragus fight is f from ov. >> and as a relief operation is underwaycross parts of east asiato rescue people trapped by heavy ins and landslides. the mber of dead is not yet clear, but there are fears that it could drive into hundreds. the typhn dropd severa inches of rain. we will have report from taiwan in just a ment. first, to cina where number of homes have coapsed. a all village in china, late-night landslide re

triggered by rentless downpours. destroyed seven homes last nit. they found x people underneath the mud and the rockssome very badly hurt. ashe clear operation got der way, two o those rcued had not surved. two women had ded here. they were moved to a place of safety,but they came bk when theyhought the nger was er. they did not sta a chance. >>cross eastern china, more than 6000 homes were wrecked thestorm. it raid harder here than it has done during any typhoon in the past 60 years. in taiwan, relief supplies are now gting through to some who have been cut off afloods and landslides. there is anger here. typene's prime minister was criticized while visiting

stricken areas. he had not done enougho protect people, they sa. >> t typhoon came he on friday. now weave pele who died. whatre you going to dobout it? on the south of the island, several hundre from one village e missing, feared dead. a wall mud engulfed their home. hehinks that hisather and mother have been washed away in the flood. e damage de here will take mohs to recover from. the taiwanese authories warned that if rescue and relief efforts contue, thdeath toll is expected to rise. >>some of the area's worst affect by the te -- by the phoon are in taiwan. we now go to roll taan. there is parcular concern about and nghboring area where

more than 700 people are trapd, possibly buriein a mudslide. >> t rain fell harder than it had in 50 years. there was little warning and the village drown in mud. the rescue tms have been battling bad weather a time to get to e villagers stranded by the storm and those tapped by the mudsdes. so r,hey have bought hundreds o people from the wreckage. >> all of the government buildings argone. they are all gone. >>he has live here all her life. authorities s 100 ople may have been ried alive here. survivorsay it could bmany more. help is onl now reaching other

isolated villages. >> myather has had a heart attack and thesaid thathey would se a helicopter. we are still wting. >> it has been exhausting wo for the volunteers involved in the rescue effor more th 250 people have me through here. od and water splies are being delivered and at first light, they wi be out again trng to get help tohose who desperately needed. bbcews, southern iwan. >> more top stories for u from aroundhe world. authorities in kuwait say that ey foiled an attack a u.s. military base. taets arsaid to include an areaouth of kuwait city. in russ's southern region of chechnya, the head of a children's chari has been shot de.

the bodies of h and her husband were found inhe boot of a car in theapital of checya. bernie madofis behind bars d now is no. 2, frank dipascali, has plead guilty to 10 charges of conspacy and fraud. he worked for bernie doff for morehan three years. and 90-ye-old former german army officer h been found guilty of killing 11 italian civilians during the second world war. is likely to be one of t last not see howar crimes trial. this report fromerlin does include flash photography. >> he was convicted on 10 cots of murder. he was a 25-year-old officer in the german armat the time of

the massacre in the village in taly. he wa a commander of a comny of engineers who set out on a brutal reisal operation after two german officers had bee killed bitalians. claimed that he was rebuilding nearby bridge at the time. ter the second world war, he lived qet, unassuming life in his he outside of munich wher he ran a furniture shop ansat on the town cncil. after a longegalattle, he went on trial in germany. t relatives ofome of the victs were also in munich today and theyeld a protest outside the courthouse. e mayor said that they d waited 65 years f truth and justic for many, this has come too late. he has nally beeneld accntable for te crimes he

committed ile as a you soldier. bbc news, blin. >> president obama haseen taking on crics of his plan t reform healthare. heurged people not to believe what he called scare tactics. he insisted it was vital legislation wou be passed. >> the biggestolitical fault line in america today runsight down the seet. over here, suprters of the present's health-care plan. overere, those o belie the an is a trojan horse, that it will bring higher taxesnd a socialis tinge to american life. the esident arrives. his reform plansare under ege. >> history is clea every time we come close to passing heth insurance reform, special interests fit back with everying they have been

the use pitical allies to sre and mislead the americ people. we cannot let tm do it again. t this time. >> no screaming or booing from thisudience, st a few resptful questions a then it was all over. the obama machine is backin action and we can expt much more of this. it is har to say that the presidt really confnted his critics there. not all suorters were so lucky. in pnnsylvania, senator arlen specter waup against this. >> i do not wanthiscountry turning to russia, turning into a socialize cntry. [applause] >> there is real confusion about the coent othe health care form pn and its implations for ordinary americans. >> i do not understand this rumor.

what is this? >> the same rough halingf setor claire mccaskill. u do not trust me? >> we have weeks more othis. can . obama fend off this assat and capture the initiative? >> state with us you can. still to come, can the new generation of palestinian leers succeed where their predecessors failed? first, while the rest of the wod struggles to cope with ecession, china powe ahead. its econoc rovery seems to be t result of a masve stimulus package. industrial production was up 11 china's al problem looks to be falling expeorts.

>> beind china's remarkable economicevival cheap loans from beijing. the government has been pouring money in construction. bldg, rads, and infrastructure. successive investments rose by 1/3. china's faories are also humming once again, largely thanks to the government's help. instrial output jumd 11%. it is a tremendo relief f people flocki to the industri hartland for work. e economy is now gathering so much steam thaanks have slashed the amot ofuan the lent. >> the jy number was more sustainable and more usu.

even the rest ofhe ye, the same kind onumber inuly, we're still going to have more than nine trillion dollars i new lending, more than enough to sustain a growth. >> the premier s sought to ensure investors that beingis doing all it can to drive grth. the recovery is still on track according to economic data. wheat exports suggests th stimulus will continue to the near futur >> this is "bbcorld ws." the internationcondemnation of t conviction of aunsan suu kyi. the u.n. securityouncil has be discussing thaction. the use reg -- huge rescue effort in asia -- hundreds are still missing.

forenerations, it has dominad palestinian politics. more. thefatah rty has fac a stiff chalnge from the has party. from jerusalem, our bbc middle east correspondent. >> outside the conference, there was a festive atsphere. participants cled it a resoundi success. >> they have been elected in a democratic process it is significant momentn histo.

the organizing and reblding of the movement. >> delegates knowhat they have a lot to prove. the party came tainted by allegations of corruption and cronyism. associed with years of fled peace talks with irael, itas a slap the fce in th last parliamentary elections. the younger geration says that it is u to the n challenges. many now have a ple in the powerful decision maki body. is arguably themost popular figure. he is serving fe life entences for murder in an israeli jai. he can offerittle learship to palestians. palestinians say that it won d to the bitt internal rivalrbetween fatah and hamas.

it has alreadysplit the palestinian territory. want peace, prosperi, and palestiniapolitical indepeence. fatah's ishe international commity's chosen peace rtner. armed resistance is still an option israeli politicianhave reacted angry. >> the u.s. secretary of state has ordered an end to the widespread sexual violence e democratic republic of congo. earlier, she saidthere shoul't be no impunity for the rapef women. ovetohe west of the continent liberia also spent years ithe grip of civil war according to its president,he country could be lf-sufcient

within 10 ars. this is partly dueo amerin intervenon that strippedhe librarian government of much of itsower. som say thatt has coromise liberia's sovereignty. a live repo fr monrovia. >> therea is a broken couny. everythingas destroyed in a civil war. it also has a spring. thousands of u.n. troops are keeping the peace and ilding roads an bridges as part o a massive terventiono stabilize e country and sto it being aailed state d a global threa >> e are he for the groundeaking ceremony. >> dp in thenterior, government dignitaries preside overa ceremony tobuild a school for former chi soldiers they are cruci to

alegria's success if they can ve on from thoughtsf war. >> the kied my mother and ther. that is why they encourage me to join. >> life wasery difficult for . >>he main causeof war was corrupti. to stop it, the internatnal community to control of much of the count's 5 inches. iticssaid it meant that lerians could not berusted to run the own government. the government does not disagree. >> do t forget,ost of our brains lefthe cntry. most of the ople who are manning our institutis - they came from warringactions. >we are in contr. >> in a boistousountryside meeting, liberians to rge

their new cil society. weo notant politics, ople say but road clinics, and hools. thexchanges are fasand furus, but the final aim is to end intnational aid programs. we will no longer contue to depend on foreigners to do for us what we need to do for oursees. this is what we reaze. intrusive foreign intervention has allowed this liberian-style debate there isanting everything -- everyone agrees on. no morear and tell the coury is rebuilto that it is self- sufficient. bbc news, liberi >> jewelry hasbeen stolen from the west and. it is the biggt such rd and britishistory. the twoen are extremely

dangerous according to authorities. amateur video ctures the robber they bring out afemale member of staff. then a shot causes panic. it happened in one of the most exclusive shopping areas in the world. once inside, the three -- the thieves thatened the workers. these are pictures releas today by police two men walk and anmake no attempt to hide their fac. the robbers were inside for just a few minutes. they say th they fired two ots. although no e was injur, pice sayhat the man they're lookg for arextremely dangerou the robry took place last

thursday in broad daylight in the late afternoon. >> thiss a sy street. the were a lot of people ound. there werepeople from its nearby pubs. if you had seen the aftermath of the bbery, we would like to hear from you. if anybody know who these men e, we would like to hear from you. if you know where anyf the jewelry hagone. >> 43 pies in a were taken, including amond earrings and necklaces. the vue is about 40 million pounds. a sense of the quality and price of theewelry thathe thieves were after. this is t theirst time this store has been tgeted. in 2003, 23 milli pounds worth ofewels were taken in another robbery.

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